Confused about whether your child is avoiding work or truly can’t get started? Learn the difference between task avoidance ...

My son has always been the kind of kid teachers describe as quiet, polite, and easy to overlook. At every parent conference, ...

Young children in a classroom (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Ground Picture) The landscape of modern education requires a fundamental shift in how student behavior is understood and managed.

Disruptive classroom behavior or failing to meet reasonable behavioral expectations set forth by instructors have the potential to harm the learning environment for other students and to create unsafe ...

"I feel like this is a positive, preventative, proactive framework," one teacher says.

Teachers seem to be at the end of their ropes right now. Bad behavior from iPad kids and the effects of the pandemic are catching up to them in the classroom. They have to become more innovative than ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

As a new school year begins, teachers want to make sure it is a positive experience for students. A big part of that comes down to behavior. “Dysregulated students become kids who hate school, and I ...

This post was written with Jessica Minahan and originally appeared in the Harvard Education Letter. About 10 percent of the school population, or 9–13 million children, struggle with mental health ...

The student sat quietly across from the counselor, answering questions with short, careful replies. Everything seemed normal ...